"Killer Cop Killer Cop () is a 1975 Italian poliziottesco-crime film directed in 1975 by Luciano Ercoli. The film's plot reprises the very real Piazza Fontana bombing which happened in Milan in 1969. The gun in the umbrella used in the movie is similar to a Bulgarian umbrella used at London in 1978 to kill Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov. ""Killer Cop"" was shot in Milan. ""Killer Cop""'s plot is influenced from the Piazza Fontana bombings. The funerals seen in the film on a television screen are actual footage of the funerals of the victims of the bombings. ""Killer Cop"" was"
"known antidote to ricin at the time. Ten days before the murder, an attempt was made to kill another Bulgarian defector, Vladimir Kostov, in the same manner as Markov, in a Paris metro station. Doctors found the same kind of pellet in his skin. However, it seems that the sugar coating of the pellet protecting the ricin content was damaged during the shot or before, and thus, only a tiny portion of the poison got into his blood, causing only fever. Kostov reported that the shot came from a man carrying a small bag, but not an umbrella. Markov saw"
"assassinated by ricin poisoning. A tiny pellet containing the poison was injected into his leg through a specially designed umbrella. Widespread allegations involving the Bulgarian government and KGB have not led to any legal results. However, after the fall of the USSR, it was learned that the KGB had developed an umbrella that could inject ricin pellets into a victim, and two former KGB agents who defected said the agency assisted in the murder. The CIA made several attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, many of the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, KGB assassin Bohdan Stashynsky killed"
"Francesco Gullino Francesco Gullino (or Giullino) (born 1946) is a Dane of Italian origin who was named in June 2005 by ""The Times"" as the prime suspect in the 1978 ""Bulgarian umbrella"" murder of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov. He was born in Bra, Italy and was known by the code name ""Piccadilly"". According to Bulgarian journalist Hristo Hristov, Gullino was an occasional smuggler arrested twice in Bulgaria and given the choice of going to prison or becoming a secret agent in the West. Based in Copenhagen with a cover as an art dealer, Gullino was supposedly active until 1990 and"
"Executioner"". A type of this umbrella is used even in poliziottesco Italian movie The Police Can't Move in 1975. A Bulgarian umbrella was featured in the 2013 ""The Americans"" episode, ""The Clock"". A similar assassination (and attempt) were central to the plot of the 1978 ""Quincy, M.E."" episode, ""Hot Ice"". The 2010 episode ""Marionette"" of ""Fringe"" begins with an organ thief administering a paralytic with an umbrella. In the AMC series Breaking Bad, season 2, episode 2, Walter White shows his accomplice, Jessie, a small bag of castor beans which he explained, the ricin can be extracted and which was"
"an X-shaped cavity. Further examination by experts from Porton Down showed that the pellet contained traces of toxic ricin. A sugary substance coated the tiny holes creating a bubble which trapped the ricin inside the cavities. The specially crafted coating was designed to melt at 37 °C (the human body temperature). As the pellet was shot into Markov, the coating melted and the ricin was free to be absorbed into the bloodstream and kill him. Regardless of whether the doctors treating Markov had known that the poison was ricin, the result would have been the same, as there was no"
"received two Bulgarian state medals “for services to security and public order”. He was briefly detained in 1993 and questioned by the British and Danish police in Copenhagen and, according to Hristov, then dropped out of sight. A British documentary, ""The Umbrella Assassin"" (2006), interviewed people connected with the case in Bulgaria, Britain and the United States, and revealed that Gullino is alive and well. Francesco Gullino Francesco Gullino (or Giullino) (born 1946) is a Dane of Italian origin who was named in June 2005 by ""The Times"" as the prime suspect in the 1978 ""Bulgarian umbrella"" murder of Bulgarian"
"Vladimir Kostov the same year in the Paris ""Métro"". The poison used in both cases was ricin. Both assassination attempts are believed to have been organized by the Bulgarian Secret Service of the time of the Cold War with the assistance of the KGB. Such an umbrella was intended to be used in the assassination of Pallo Jordan and Ronnie Kasrils by the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau death squad. These two cases inspired the 1980 French film ""Le Coup du parapluie"" (""The Umbrella Coup"") directed by Gérard Oury and starring Pierre Richard, and Bulgarian writer Stefan Kisyov's novel ""The"
"followed the coffin, which was covered with wreaths from the Bulgarian Church congregation. His grave is in the cemeteries ""Saint Nedela"" in Bitola. Aleksandar Turundzhev Aleksandar Kicev Turundzhev (""; "") was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and leader of the Lerin cheta of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. According to the Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian. He was born in 1872 in the village of Ekshi su in Monastir Vilayet (today ""Ξινό Νερό"" - ""Xino Nero"" in Amyntaio, Greek Macedonia). He joined the IMARO while he was young as a rebel and took part in terrorist"
"paper included an array of racial epithets. One Narva resident was sentenced to 1 year in jail for distribution of ""Kołowrót"". The Kolovrat has since been used by the Rusich Battalion, a Russian militant group known for its operation during the War in Donbass. The bronze frontispiece of a ritual pre-Christian () shield found in the River Thames near Battersea Bridge (hence ""Battersea Shield"") is embossed with 27 swastikas in bronze and red enamel. An Ogham stone found in Anglish, Co Kerry, Ireland (CIIC 141) was modified into an early Christian gravestone, and was decorated with a cross pattée and"
"death was poisoning from a ricin-filled pellet. Markov's grave is in a small churchyard at the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset. Due to the circumstances and statements Markov made to doctors expressing the suspicion that he had been poisoned, the Metropolitan Police ordered a thorough autopsy of Markov's body. Dr Bernard Riley, a forensic pathologist, discovered a spherical metal pellet the size of a pin-head embedded in Markov's leg. The pellet measured in diameter and was composed of 90% platinum and 10% iridium. It had two holes with diameters of drilled through it, producing"
"death the independent course of his policy was abandoned. Stambolov Crag on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, is named for him. Stambolov is portrayed on the obverse of the Bulgarian 20 levs banknote, issued in 1999 and 2007. Stefan Stambolov Stefan Nikolov Stambolov () (31 January 1854 OS– 19 July 1895 OS) was a Bulgarian politician, journalist, revolutionist, and poet who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular ""Founders of Modern Bulgaria"", and is sometimes referred to as ""the Bulgarian Bismarck"". In 1875 and 1876 he took part"
"Pirin Macedonia, the northeastern part of the region allotted by the treaty to Bulgaria. On 15 December 1922, he was targeted by an IMRO-organised assassination attempt in Sofia. IMRO member (""komitadji"") Asen Daskalov threw a bomb at Rayko Daskalov's car in front of the National Assembly building in Sofia, though the politician was not injured. In February 1923, Daskalov was released from his duties as government minister and in May he was sent to Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia, as Bulgarian minister plenipotentiary to that country. On 9 June, with Daskalov in Prague, a military-supported coup d'état overthrew Stamboliyski and"
"his leg with the tip of an umbrella. Markov died shortly afterwards of ricin poisoning. He was the victim of the Bulgarian secret service, as confirmed by KGB documents revealing that they had jointly planned the operation with Bulgaria. The Bulgarian People's Army sided with the Soviet Union and the Afghan communists during the Soviet–Afghan War in Afghanistan fighting the jihadist guerrillas from 1982 until its withdrawal in 1989. By the 1980s, the conservatives controlled the government. Some social and cultural liberalization and progress was led by Lyudmila Zhivkova, Todor's daughter, who became a source of strong disapproval and annoyance"
"other students. His intention was to warn the public against the forthcoming political ""normalization"" of the country. He had several letters challenging the people to fight against the Warsaw Pact's military occupation of Czechoslovakia. Around 1:30 in the afternoon he walked into the passageway of the building at No. 39 on Wenceslas Square and ignited his chemical-soaked clothes. He was unable to run out of the door, and collapsed and died in the hallway. In a letter he left behind he wrote: The police prohibited his burial in Prague because they feared demonstrations, such as the ones that followed the"
"the cannon's payload contained ammonia), Zimbabwe (in 2007, when the use of cannons on a peaceful crowd caused panic), Turkey (in 2013, when the payload was laced with ""liquid teargas""), Ukraine (in 2014, with the death of activist and businessman Bogdan Kalynyak, reportedly catching pneumonia after being sprayed by water cannon in freezing temperatures) and South Korea (in 2016, when a 68 year old farmer died after injuries sustained by a water cannon the previous year). Water cannons in use during the 1960s, which were generally adapted fire trucks, would knock protesters down and on occasion, tear their clothes. On"
"founding member of the umbrella opposition movement Union of Democratic Forces. Between 1995-1997 he was the Parliamentary Secretary of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense. In 1999 Smolenov was elected for MP in the 38th Bulgarian National Assembly. In 2017 Smolenov was honored with the title Honorary Professor of the Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. Hristo Smolenov Hristo Smolenov is a Bulgarian scientist, logician and antiterrorism expert, born 1954 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In 2007 was revealed as associated with the communist secret services. After graduating from the Moscow State University he became a guest professor at the University of Montreal and at"
"""The Reunion"". Georgi Markov Georgi Ivanov Markov (; 1 March 1929 – 11 September 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident writer. Markov originally worked as a novelist and playwright in his native country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, until his defection in 1968. After relocating, he worked as a broadcaster and journalist for the BBC World Service, the US-funded Radio Free Europe and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. Markov used such forums to conduct a campaign of sarcastic criticism against the incumbent Bulgarian regime, which, according to his wife at the time he died, eventually became ""vitriolic"" and included ""really smearing mud"
"of Ukrainian Nationalists members Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera by Bohdan Stashynsky in Munich in 1957 and 1959, as well as the unrelated slayings of emigre dissidents like Abdurahman Fatalibeyli; the surreptitious ricin poisoning of the Bulgarian émigré Georgi Markov, shot with an umbrella-gun of KGB design, in 1978; The defection of assassins like Nikolai Khokhlov and Bohdan Stashynsky severely curtailed such activities however, and the KGB largely gave up assassinations abroad after Stashynsky's defection, although they continued assisting the Eastern European sister services in doing so. The KGB First Chief Directorate residency was the equivalent of the U.S. Central"
"prison Kartouzi in Ichin. There he took his own life on 23 January 1926, by hanging. Today, a bilingual Czech–Bulgarian commemorative plaque marks the site of Daskalov's assassination in Smíchov, Prague. The plaque describes Daskalov as a ""great Slav and a fighter for freedom, democracy and republicanism"". Yordan Tsitsonkov Yordan Tsitsonkov (, 1900 – 23 January 1926) was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Macedonia and activist of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), who assassinated the exiled Bulgarian politician Rayko Daskalov on 26 August 1923. Born in 1900, Tsitsonkov originates from Štip, which at this time was part of the Ottoman"
"that the prime suspect is an Italian named Francesco Gullino (or Giullino) who was last known to be living in Denmark. A British documentary, ""The Umbrella Assassin"" (2006), interviewed people associated with the case in Bulgaria, Britain, Denmark and America, and revealed that the prime suspect, Gullino, is alive and well, and still travelling freely throughout Europe. There were reports in June 2008 that Scotland Yard had renewed its interest in the case. Detectives were sent to Bulgaria and requests were made to interview relevant individuals. In August 2018 the case was the subject of the BBC Radio 4 programme"
"late 1970s and ended up mixed with gravel used to construct the building in 1980. Over 9 years, two families lived in the apartment. By the time the capsule was discovered, 6 residents of the building had died from leukemia and 17 more had received varying doses of radiation. Georgian soldiers suffered radiation poisoning and burns. They were eventually traced back to training sources abandoned, forgotten, and unlabeled after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. One was a Cs pellet in a pocket of a shared jacket which put out about 130,000 times the level of background radiation at 1"
"Tzvetlin Yovchev vigorously denied the allegations, calling them a lie. The Borisov Government launched an investigation. Psychologists have questioned the developmental effects on children partaking in demonstrations, with former Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha being one of the politicians especially critical of the practice, believing it to be contrary to the EU directives on the well-being of the underaged. On 21 August 2013, the Soviet Army monument in Sofia was discovered to have been painted in pink, with the message “Bulgaria apologizes” in Bulgarian and Czech on display, a reference to the Bulgarian troops’ participation in the 1968 Warsaw Pact"
"recuperation,"" as he put it in a 1979 BBC interview with Janis Sapiets. On 8 August 1971, Solzhenitsyn was poisoned with what was later determined to be ricin, but survived. On 19 September 1974, Yuri Andropov approved a large-scale operation to discredit Solzhenitsyn and his family and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents. The plan was jointly approved by Vladimir Kryuchkov, Philipp Bobkov, and Grigorenko (heads of First, Second and Fifth KGB Directorates). The residencies in Geneva, London, Paris, Rome and other European cities participated in the operation. Among other active measures, at least three StB agents became translators and"
"Sergei Skripal Sergei Viktorovich Skripal (, born 23 June 1951) is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the UK's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s. In December 2004, he was arrested by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and later tried, convicted of high treason, and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He settled in the UK in 2010 following the Illegals Program spy swap. On 4 March 2018, he and his daughter Yulia, who was visiting him from Moscow, were poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. they were in a critical"
"before being put to death in 1947. Dimitar Petkov Dimitar Nikolov Petkov () (2 November 1858, Tulcea – 11 March 1907, Sofia) was a leading member of the Bulgarian People's Liberal Party and the country's Prime Minister from November 5, 1906 until he was assassinated in Sofia the following year. A veteran of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 he fought for the Russian Imperial Army at the Battle of Shipka Pass where he lost an arm during the combat. Petkov spent five years (1888–1893) as mayor of Sofia and during his time in charge he undertook an extensive redevelopment of"
"ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko and radiation expert Matthew Puncher. Puncher discovered that Litvinenko was poisoned by polonium; he died in 2006, five months after a trip to Russia. The host of the ""Vesti Nedeli"" on Russian state television (Russia-1 channel of VGTRK), Dmitry Kiselyov, said on 11 March that the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, who was ""completely wrung out and of little interest"" as a source, was only advantageous to the British to ""nourish their Russophobia"" and organise the boycott of the FIFA World Cup scheduled for June 2018. Kiselyov referred to London as a ""pernicious place for Russian exiles""."
"found in the samples. They concluded that the agent used in the Barricade Theater hostage rescue contained two fentanyl derivatives much stronger than fentanyl itself, sprayed in an aerosol mist.<ref name=""Timperley/Porton Down""></ref> According to Lev Fyodorov, a former Soviet chemical weapons scientist who now heads the independent Council for Chemical Security in Moscow, the agent was originally developed at a secret military research facility in Leningrad (now restored to its historic name of Saint Petersburg), during the 1970s. Methods of dispersing the compound were reportedly developed and tested by releasing harmless bacteria through subway system ventilation shafts, first in Moscow"
"Dimitar Petkov Dimitar Nikolov Petkov () (2 November 1858, Tulcea – 11 March 1907, Sofia) was a leading member of the Bulgarian People's Liberal Party and the country's Prime Minister from November 5, 1906 until he was assassinated in Sofia the following year. A veteran of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 he fought for the Russian Imperial Army at the Battle of Shipka Pass where he lost an arm during the combat. Petkov spent five years (1888–1893) as mayor of Sofia and during his time in charge he undertook an extensive redevelopment of the city. Following the death of Stefan"
"Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera with a spray gun that fired a jet of poison gas from a crushed cyanide ampule, making their deaths look like heart attacks. A 2006 case in the UK concerned the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko who was given a lethal dose of radioactive polonium-210, possibly passed to him in aerosol form sprayed directly onto his food. Litvinenko, a former KGB agent, had been granted asylum in the UK in 2000 after citing persecution in Russia. Shortly before his death he issued a statement accusing President of Russia Vladimir Putin of involvement in"
"Aleksandar Turundzhev Aleksandar Kicev Turundzhev (""; "") was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and leader of the Lerin cheta of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. According to the Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian. He was born in 1872 in the village of Ekshi su in Monastir Vilayet (today ""Ξινό Νερό"" - ""Xino Nero"" in Amyntaio, Greek Macedonia). He joined the IMARO while he was young as a rebel and took part in terrorist operations. Since 1902 he is a rebel under the command of the Bulgarian officer Georgi Papanchev, but after his death in May, by"
"discusses the problems of the LBGT community in Bulgaria. Petrova is also an independent environmentalist and was arrested during a protest on 2 July 2007 together with 35 other activists defending the Natural Park ""Strandja"". Around 500 blockaded the crossroad of Orlov Most (Eagle's Bridge) in the center of Bulgaria's capital. Desislava Petrova Desislava Dobreva Petrova (Bulgarian: Десислава Добрева Петрова; born 12 December 1980) is a Bulgarian gay rights activist and former president of BGO Gemini - Bulgaria's largest LGBT rights organization. She has struggled for equal rights for LGBT people since 2000. As Chair of the Bulgarian gay organization"
"for personal protection of Anatoly Sobchak and Putin, and who died in Russia in 2004 from poisoning by an unknown radioactive substance. Officers of FSB ""special forces"" liked to use Litvinenko photos for target practice in shooting galleries, according to Russian journalist Yulia Latynina. Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and KGB, who fled from court prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom. On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. He died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim of"